Record Number Of California Students Entering School Without Vaccinations

The AP (9/27, Mohajer) reports that California public health officials are concerned that a record 11,000 kindergarten students in California last year were missing "at least one vaccine" because "of parents who used a personal belief exemption to avoid immunization requirements." The piece notes that this constitutes almost 2.5% of the cohort, calling it "California's highest rate of declined vaccines since at least 1978, the year before the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine was required."